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Definition of Reacquires
1. reacquire [v] - See also: reacquire
Lexicographical Neighbors of Reacquires
Literary usage of Reacquires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Pharmaceutical Journal by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain (1846)
"It however soon reacquires its usual appearance if kept in warm or even cold
water for a short time. In its chemical relations, it closely resembles ..."
2. A Treatise on the Law of Bills of Exchange, Promissory-notes, Bank-notes by Robert Thomson, John Dove Wilson (1865)
"When a party originally in right to a bill or note reacquires it on payment, ...
But if the protest is registered before he reacquires the bill or note, ..."
3. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1904)
"... because the germs inherit the acquisitions of the individual, nay more, inherit
the natures of previous ancestors only as the individual reacquires them ..."
4. The Popular Science Monthly (1893)
"... aquatic mode of respiration; and the siren, after having had its gills so far
absorbed as to be mere- stabs, returns to the water and reacquires them. ..."
5. The American Journal of the Medical Sciences by Southern Society for Clinical Investigation (U.S.) (1851)
"At a low red heat, the altered phosphorus is reconverted to and reacquires all
the properties of ordinary phosphorus! There is, therefore, no apparent ..."
6. The Variation of Animals and Plants Under Domestication by Charles Darwin (1890)
"When we advance as far eastward as Japan, the horse reacquires his full size.24 "With
most of our domesticated animals, some breeds are kept on account of ..."
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